To be jealous of everyone getting slim in weight loss jabs while I get fatter !

[Sundayslump]

Okay - lighthearted ? Maybe.

I’ve been lucky to grow up and be a size 10 . Had a baby at 27. Lost all the weight but my body changed. Baby 2 , again gained 4 stone but I’ve always kept the last stone. I am now 12/14 uk.

I work full time and have two children . I eat healthy for the most part and walk and exercise. When I am super strict which feels so much harder at 40 I am a size 12 but unlike in my 30s it seems so much harder to lose weight now . I feel crap in my clothes and I wish and dream of being a size 10. Call me pathetic !

My brother and his wife , twos sisters and their husbands , work colleagues and a few of my good friends who were never obese but had a few stone to lose are all taking weight loss jabs. They have all lost around 2/3/4 stone and are all now looking fab . All the women are now in size 8 jeans and I am jealous. I sound pathetic . None of these ladies were any bigger than a 14/16 to start with.

I totally understand these jabs are so life changing for so many people who need them but it seems in my life everyone has taken them and gone from a 14/16 to a size 8/6 size Uk and I can’t help but feel like if I just bloody jump on the bandwagon I will feel good, feel happy and be slim.

Now everyone around me is so slim I feel ever more aware of my size .

I want to state I exercise and do eat a healthy diet . I have just found after two babies and getting older unless I basically stick to 1200 calories a day I can’t maintain a size 12.
Ahhhhhh. Sorry for sounding so so so vain.

do you really want to be stuck not eating and getting by on so few calories when you could just be the size your body naturally wants you to be? Weight loss jabs are mental for people who aren’t morbidly obese and soooooo dangerous for young women growing up thinking it’s okay

It doesn’t work like that for everyone. I have been taking it for 9 months but I still have food noise and hunger and cravings. It’s not a magic pill for everyone. What it does do for me is lower my HBA1C so I don’t have the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (family history)

If you read the thread, there are people who’ve done this and opinions vary. It always amuses me how people like to jump on strangers on the internet!

Medically it can be though depending on your height. My BMI is currently 25.58 and I'm down to a size 12. I'm still in the medically overweight category until I get to 25 and under BMI. Few people would eyeball me now and say I was overweight but in medical science terms I still am. It's similar to how medicine classes pregnant women over 35 as 'geriatric' pregnancies. General perception and medical science don't always tally up.

As a size 16 I was clinically obese. Was still overweight when I was back in a 12. It might be 'average' but that doesn't mean its not overweight / obese

OP, agree. I was very overweight and managed to loose about 3 stones through diet and exercise but maintaining an appropriate weight is a struggle and even though I have a healthy bmi I won’t see size 12 again
Niw lots of people who have always eaten what they like while being couch potato’s have lost a load of weight, look stunning and don’t even have food noise gnawing away.
I feel mean saying this but it feels like cheating
so, yes, op you are right.

It varies so much doesn’t it - as someone who is quite tall, I occasionally needed a size 16 for my naturally wide hips even when I was a “healthy” BMI of 24. Equally I suppose someone closer to 5 foot could easily have a BMI of 26/27 (so technically overweight) and still comfortably fit in a size 10/12.

I must admit to being quite surprised at the size 14-16’s mentioned being over the BMI 30 usually required for MJ. They must all be very petite!

I am 5 foot 7, 14 stone and 5lbs, a 14/16 on top and 16/18 on bottom and my BMI is obese. There really isn’t much separating overweight and obese.

I'm 5'6 and when I was a size 16 I was 190lbs which was a BMI over 30

It’s amazing how we all carry the weight differently- I’m only an inch or two taller than you but at about 13 stone (BMI 27/28) I usually need a size 18 for my hips. Based on past experience, to get to a size 14/16 hips I would be into the healthy BMI category.

Though it’s not my cup of tea personally, I agree it’s unfair for those that do want to use MJ that BMI 29 can’t often get it but 30 can. I understand there does have to be a cut off somewhere- but as you say, visually and even health wise there can be little difference between those in the higher “overweight” category and those just into the “obese”. (I use quote marks as personally I hate that the often inaccurate BMI is so commonly used to measure a healthy weight, even by doctors - a combination of body fat percentage and hip to waist or waist to height ratio really ought to be the standard ).

Thanks for your opinion.

you obviously know very little about a TT procedure. Try reading up

@Twiglets1

Yawn - resorting to insults again rather than just making your points politely as nearly everyone else on this thread has managed to do

The poster has the courage to say exactly what she means, unlike you who hides behind passive aggressive nonsense and cowardly window dressing when replying.

In a nutshell!

Yes because the UK (and most of the western world) has an obesity epidemic. Over two thirds of adults are either overweight or obese. 30% are now obese compared to 15% 30 years ago. That's why it seems average. And that's why the NHS has been in such a panic about the increasing percentage of the population getting diabetes, CVD, stroke, cancer etc - all linked to obesity. I sincerely hope WLIs will turn this around because 30 + years of encouraging people to lose weight hasn't worked (unsurprising given the wider unhealthy environment of UPFs etc). Obviously it's a personal choice for those currently able to get them prescribed, but they could be an incredible development for health services - much like immunization vaccines. And the big food and drink companies making profits from people over- consuming are all very worried I'm sure. As other posters have said, these WLIs have been around for many years but it's only recently that some of their other benefits are being understood - eg for alcohol dependency, gambling etc. Also there is no shortage (of WLIs) now in the UK for diabetic patients.

Obesity isn't about dress size. I wear a size 14/16 between 12 and 14 stone and that's definitely obese

intern fasting is a game changer

@andfinallyhereweare

not tor everyone.

I’m not big (size 10-12 max) but I lost 20lbs over 9 months, and I’ve been taking half the minimum starter dose once every 6-8 weeks. I’d like to cut another 10lbs then hopefully can stop entirely. I will say I am under 40 (just), 2 children, busy work life, excercise a lot, but I had completely plateaued with weight loss after pregnancy. This kicked that and got me to stop snacking. It completely cuts out the food noise, any desire for alcohol and I want so much water. It feels good to be honest, like a mini detox. I feel better, healthier, and more energised. Not being massive, I found that the starter dose really made me feel like dog poop (it was like 10 days of morning sickness), but half of that worked wonders. No regrets. To each their own and all that.

Your body doesn’t naturally want to be anything. It isn’t a thing with thoughts and feelings.

I am not sharing an opinion. I’m giving facts. Taking it for a month is not what it was designed for and has incredibly low success rates. If you only need to for a month quite simply you don’t meet the criteria to take it anyway.

Nevertheless you are extrapolating a couple of friends on WLI to the whole population of weight loss drug users and implying that if people suffer bad effects it is likely their own fault in some way. This is not true and it actually quite insulting to people who suffer bad side effects through absolutely no fault of their own. Again, gastric side effects are warned about in the instructions so not unusual.

Those people have been dealing with obesity their whole lives and are rarely enjoying eating what they like with the obesity and health issues.

Shaming this is up there with shaming pain killer use. It’s ridiculous and bitter.

I get why you say it feels like cheating, but really, there must be some sort of a pay off. I haven’t done my research, but I can’t see how artificially increasing your metabolic hormones is going to be good for your health. We’re overweight as a nation due to the amount of unnecessary junk food in our diets which mess with hormones and blood sugar. This is what affects our health. Many people are talking about ‘food noise’ - all this junk food has us craving and addicted. I love junk food, but the less I eat, the less I find myself a slave to it.

My (uneducated) understanding is that the jabs readdress the balance of hormones to help people who have chronic obesity from food addiction. People who need medical intervention because otherwise they are at risk of serious health problems.

I have been overweight, I’m now a healthy bmi and it takes me a lot of effort to maintain it, but I’m glad I don’t qualify for WLI. I might be tempted otherwise. There have been arguments back and forth about side effects. I have no idea who is correct - you can find plenty of arguments online to back up both sides. My dad died from pancreatic cancer and it was horrendous, I won’t be messing with any medication I don’t need.

She doesn’t need you to defend her she’s more than able to stand up for herself. But tends to attack first as on this thread.

And you’re being passive aggressive in this post & not explaining yourself properly. What have I said that is “cowardly window dressing?”

Atleast you won't have ozempic arse OP 😂I've always been slim and follow ozempic progress out of morbid curiosity and when people post their progress it's like an empty sack